Perth / Western Australia

The building materials for the facade of London Court came from the dismantled mine head out in Kookynie?!

A rally will be held in Margaret River at the weekend to call on the state government to fund rapid bushfire suppression equipment and scale back “failing” prescribed burns in the South West.

Globally there has been a shift towards adopting new early detection and rapid suppression equipment to quickly identify and extinguish bushfires.

The technology, including smoke detection cameras, satellite monitoring, AI software and drones to give a bird’s-eye view to spot developing fires, is already operational in Canada and California.

It is being rolled out in European countries and along the east coast of Australia.

WA Forest Alliance senior campaigner Jason Fowler said the WA government and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions were lagging and reliant on “outdated and dangerous” policy.

“The prescribed burning program is no longer effective at protecting South West communities in a drying and warming climate,” he said.

“Only half of prescribed burns close to communities have been completed last year because they are too risky.

“Forests are also suffering with an increasing number of high-intensity burns causing severe damage.”

The plans for two hotels is noticeably absent from this article.

The impact on the inhabitants of these forests is conspicuous in its absence from this article, but i guess they have some allies in the trail users.

Just stalking the 'about' side bar over on c/melbourne, as any Western Australian on a Saturday night is of course doing... we have lives over here!.. I think... , and noticed they adopted a Numbat at Perth Zoo!

How freakin cool! Cheers guys! But, why in Perth and not Melbourne?

Okay, if theres a 15 year old on the teacup ride then i don't think i'll feel safe. I need to see that 'pack a day' guy behind the controls or i just won't feel reassured. /j

Interesting, i just assumed Albany being such a large regional centre already had extended trading hours.

They should name it Crush, and if they make a smaller version, name that one squirt.

Its the liquor license holder who can apply for the transfer. If they're moving, even if they're Liquorland, they should be allowed to take it.

And who knows, if the property goes up for sale maybe another liquor store will be put in the same location? Thats probably naive of me, this is Coles we're talking about.

There'd be somewhere else in the neighbourhood someone could open another and perhaps better liquor store.

Maybe Dan Murphy's will come and plonk one of their big green boxes somewhere really high traffic and cause the spot to be even more horrendous. Thats always fun!

Dont forget the 5 R's

Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle.

https://www.cleanup.org.au/the5rs

Nice inspiring story for a Saturday.

Belle keeping up with the watery events of the day I see. Very good.

Maybe a less breathless explanation of whats happened over the last few days with Nicheliving.

Tineke Van der Eecken's blog

Would this be the first time Woodside are getting into shale? If so, I wonder if they're planning to broaden their expertise in shale collection through this aquisition to apply it further in Aus? Might be a peripheral benefit Woodside are seeking.

Novelty size invoices, love it!

Perth city skyline illuminated by a stormy sunset, photo taken from a place to the east